Boston’s Trinity Church was founded in 1733 and is coming to 280 years old, and is honored as one of the United States’ ten most significant buildings and a national historic landmark. The church is located at Copley Square and part of the Back Bay district. This was my second stop on Sunday late morning after the visit to the New England Aquarium. The church itself is open to the public for visitation and prayer on weekdays, and after 1 PM on Sunday after their morning services.
After taking about 90 minutes to explore the Back Bay district on foot, I arrived at the church 10 past 1 PM and was surprised to see very few people in it. There was a group inside having one of the church’s guided tours, and they were about finishing. Aside from one or two other visitors, I was otherwise alone in the sanctuary.
The picture above was shot straight up (strained neck to prove!) and the highest point in the dome’s ceiling must be at least five or six floors high.
Stained-glass windows from the church’s sides. The top picture and one on the left is of the Nativity of Jesus.
On the outside: left is Trinity Church on Copley Square with the Boston Public Library behind me, and a statue of Phillips Brooks, a preacher and bishop of the church and who died in 1893.
The left side of the church with the John Hancock tower with its distinctive glass-panes in the background.
A video of the Sanctuary. It’s not so good though as it was shot in very low light, and cuts off midway (90 second limit on Flickr – boo!).
Photographic notes: there was mostly ambient light sources in the church only. No tripod; and all handheld. The optical stabilization could only do so much. I took about a hundred bracketed exposures inside the sanctuary, and at least half of them had a small bit of camera movement in them: exposure times were as long as a second or two in several!
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